| World News  | Twin car bombings in Algeria
News24
Algiers - Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, a day after a suicide bombing in a neighbouring region killed 43 people, witnesses said. A car laden with explosives went off at about 06:00 (04:00GMT) in front of the Bouira sector military command. It was followed a minute later by a second bombing against the nearby Hotel Sofi, Bouira's largest, witnesses said. It was not...
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|  | Iraq pullback deal drafted
Denver Post
Under the accord, U.S. troops would leave Iraqi cities by next summer and move to bases. Iraqi soldiers Wednesday guard a cache of mortar rounds seized in a raid in Baghdad's Sadr City district. Arms caches have been found all around Iraq, some of them belonging to the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein and stolen by militants during the 2003 invasion. (Ali al-Saadi, AFP/Getty Images ) BAGHDAD — Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a...
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|  | Syria-Russian talks focus on arms
BBC News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is holding talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Russia. Before starting his visit, Mr Assad said...
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|  | 4 more foreign activists detained in China
The Boston Globe
BEIJING—Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration. The women were still at home three days after being officially notified they would have to serve a yearlong term of reeducation through labor, but were under surveillance by a government-backed neighborhood group, said Li Xuehui, the son...
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|  | Bhutto widower gets backing
News24
Islamabad - Lawmakers from the party of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto have asked her widower to run for president in the wake of Pervez Musharraf's resignation, a minister said on Thursday. The MPs from the Pakistan's People's Party (PPP), which leads the country's four-party coalition government, voiced their support for Asif Ali Zardari at a dinner he hosted on Wednesday at his Islamabad residence. "Members belonging to our...
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|  | Russians block Georgian city access
Canoe
By Bela Szandelzsky, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Georgians play backgammon outside Gori, northwest of Tbilisi, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Russian forces on Wednesday dug foxholes and built a sentry post in a part of central Georgia far outside the security zone they are authorized to remain in after a mandated pullout that is being carried out slowly, if at all. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Sergei Grits POTI, Georgia - Russian forces blocked the only land...
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|  | Russia Blocks Georgia's Main Port City of Poti
Fox News
POTI, Georgia - Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia's main port city on Thursday, a day before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet neighbor. Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian forces excavated trenches and set up mortars facing the city. Another group of APCs and trucks were positioned in a nearby wooded area. Although...
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|  | The censored Games
The Miami Herald
OUR OPINION: CHINA ABANDONS VOWS TO ALLOW DISSENT, FREE REPORTING China's leaders would have the world believe that the country is just one big happy place where none of the 1.3 billion citizens ever complains and everyone is content to do as they're told. The reality is altogether different, and...
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| Business News  | New AT&T service offers installation and tech support
Business Journal
> AT&T Inc. is launching a new in-home service called AT&T ConnecTech that will provide technical support for television and home theater installation, personal computer and home network setup and repair services. "AT&T has long been a familiar face in the homes of Americans - first installing phone service, high speed Internet service and now AT&T U-verse TV," says Carmen Nava, senior vice president for consumer marketing operations for AT&T....
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|  | Apple offers to replace faulty iPod batteries
Inquirer
TOKYO -- Apple is offering to replace faulty batteries in iPod nanos in Japan following a government warning that the popular music players may pose a fire hazard, a company spokesman said Thursday. "We will replace batteries of the first-generation iPod nanos with new...
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|  | Heinz 1Q profit rises 11 percent
The News Tribune
MILWAUKEE -- Food maker H.J. Heinz Co. said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, fueled by double-digit sales growth in North America and Europe. The earnings offset a drop-off in Heinz's U.S. restaurant business, which is slowing on weaker consumer demand as people grapple with increasing food and fuel costs and eat more meals at home. For the three months ending July 30, the Pittsburgh-based maker of Heinz Ketchup,...
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|  | Internet users fear iPod tunes blocked in China -
Yahoo Daily News
39 minutes ago BEIJING (Reuters) - The downloading of music for iPod players has hit a mysterious glitch in China, stumping scores of users and raising fears the government has blocked Apple's iTunes site over pro-Tibet lyrics, analysts said on Thursday. Since Monday, more than 60 people have posted messages in an Apple Inc discussion forum complaining that they could not download songs for use on Apple's iPods....
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|  | Food prices probably won't be coming down anytime soon
The News Tribune
NEW YORK - As prices for crude oil and other commodities ease, consumers have gotten a small dose of relief at the gas pump. But don't expect less pain at the grocery counter. Food inflation is here to stay and will probably get worse for some things. That's because retail prices for cereal, eggs, cheese and meat generally lag by several months or longer world prices for wheat, corn and soybeans the raw ingredients of so much of our food....
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|  | Chicken's little lift
Buffalo News
The nation's top producers of chicken took flight Aug. 14 when Lehman Bros. began covering the agribusiness processing sector, calling it well positioned for the long term....
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| Entertainment News  | For his latest role, actor turns singer-songwriter
Philadelphia Daily News
Actor Terrence Howard sings and plays his own songs on his new album � and they're nothing like those of his signature film character. By Dan DeLuca Inquirer Music Critic When Terrence Howard first met with Sony music executives to discuss a recording career, the suits made an assumption. "They thought I wanted to make a rap album," says the actor, who will perform songs from his debut album, at the Theater of Living Arts on South Street on...
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|  | 'The Longshots'
Newsday
Rating: If you wanted to make a parody of the sports movie genre, you might call it " " - like, no kidding? The underdogs are gonna win? But there are few movies out right now more genuine than this story, in which a young girl pining for her MIA father is rescued by, and rescues, her aimless uncle ( ). Directed by ex-Limp Bizkit front man (who made last year's "The Education of Charlie Banks"), it concerns the real-life Jasmine Plummer, who took...
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|  | New & recent releases
The Charlotte Observer
NEW RELEASES DEATH RACE * 1/2 The year is 2012, with prisons privately run for profit and the warden of Terminal Island (Joan Allen) holding fatal auto races for 70 million TV viewers. Stone-faced Jason Statham plays an unjustly imprisoned man forced to drive; Tyrese Gibson is his deadly opponent. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson smashes things into one another and, when that gets boring, rams some minor character's head onto a metal spike. The...
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|  | Nadal, Ivanovic top seeds for Open
Independent online (SA)
New No 1 Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic head the US Open seedings for the first time. The US Open, starting on Monday, followed the rankings in announcing the seeds on Tuesday. Nadal took over as the men's top-ranked player on Monday, ending Roger Federer's 237-week reign since February 2004. The Spaniard had been second to Federer since...
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|  | OASIS Members Form New Committee to Enable Secure Web Service Discovery and Control of Networked Devices
Stockhouse
CA, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, Software AG, and Others Collaborate to Advance WS Specifications for Devices BOSTON, Aug 21, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new group to define a lightweight subset of the Web services protocol suite that will make it easy to find, share, and control devices on a network. The OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services...
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|  | Sheryl Crow offers free music to voters
USA Today
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Tom Mihalek, AP "It's about the issues that everyone's talking about, but there's a lot of hope," Crow said. "At this moment in my life, writing about anything else would be uninteresting and impossible because I feel such urgency." By Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sheryl Crow is giving away free music — a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party...
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|  | Eva Longoria wears ANOTHER loose-fitting dress as pregnancy rumours gather pace
The Daily Mail
It's another day, another baggy dress for Eva Longoria. The Desperate Housewives star stepped out in a loose-fitting purple dress in Los Angeles yesterday. She has been wearing a succession of uncharacteristically frumpy clothes in recent weeks. As such, speculation has been rife on both sides of the Atlantic that the 33-year-old could in fact be pregnant. Expecting? Eva Longoria steps out in yet another baggy dress, further fuelling pregnancy...
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| Health News  | Mo. among top 15 fattest states
The Business Review
Missouri is the 13th fattest state in the nation, a new report says. More than 27 percent of adult Missourians are overweight and obese, according to a study released Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The state ranks 18th for its level of physical inactivity among adults and 24th for its number of diabetic residents. Nationwide, more than one in four adults are obese in 28 states, including Missouri, an increase from 19 states last...
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|  | What are you smoking?
News24
Georgina Guedes I didn't used to be a vehement anti-smoker. I used to sit in the smoking section of restaurants to be with my smoking friends, rather than have to sit by myself or abandon the table altogether when they went outside for a quick puff. At parties, I was perfectly happy to have people smoking around me. Sure, I ended up with stinking hair and clothes, but that was a small price to pay for being where the joll was. But, in my late...
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|  | Using cigarettes and alcohol is not cool
Nation
Cigarettes and alcohol Here are the third and fourth in a series of articles for parents, students and the public in general on sections of the Ministry of Educations Disciplinary Policy and Procedures for Schools (DPP). The aim is to educate everyone on their roles and responsibilities in promoting strong values, moral and social principles in our young people. The Ministry of Education adopts a NO USE POLICY on cigarettes and alcohol. This...
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|  | Tainted meat recalled after one dies, dozens sick
Canada Dot Com
Two northern B.C. residents are sick as a result of eating meat contaminated with the potentially deadly bacterium listeria monocytogenes, a doctor from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control confirmed on Wednesday. The confirmation comes as a spreading outbreak of the bacteria has left one person dead and dozens more sick across Canada. The illnesses are suspected to be linked to ready-to-eat deli meats produced at Maple Leaf Consumer Food's...
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|  | More Strawberries, More Antioxidant Absorption
ARS
web August 21, 2008 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have assessed the human body's capacity for absorbing certain antioxidant compounds in strawberries, and have found that the absorption of one key beneficial plant chemical was not "maxed out" as volunteers ate more of this popular fruit. Foods high in antioxidants may be excellent sources of healthful compounds,...
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| Politics News  | Gordon Brown launches fightback, insisting Labour can win next election
The Guardian
Gordon Brown last night launched a political fightback, brushing aside questions about his leadership and vowing to win the next election. The prime minister suggested there would be no autumn reshuffle and instead hinted that his government would bring forward measures this September to help those hardest hit by the credit crunch. Brown's attempt to reassert his authority follows a summer of dismal byelection defeats, dire poll ratings,...
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|  | Costello breaks silence on Liberal leadership
Canberra Times
Former treasurer Peter Costello says he will not be challenging for the leadership of the Liberal Party. Current leader Brendan Nelson's ongoing poor performance in opinion polls has raised speculation that Mr...
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|  | Seif to follow father's footsteps?
Independent online (SA)
Tripoli - Seif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, is increasingly seen as the successor to his father, despite publicly ruling out any dynastic ambitions in the north African country. Although he occupies no formal political office, the 36-year-old Seif al-Islam wields vast influence. In recent years he has distinguished himself as one of the most dependable of the regime's envoys, and a determined reformist working to normalise...
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|  | Karzai teases Brown on Afghanistan visit
The Independent
Gordon Brown visited Afghanistan today to praise British troops, but couldn't escape questions about his leadership. To his obvious irritation, the news conference was dominated by questions from British reporters about his political plight at home and a possible leadership challenge by Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The Prime Minister insisted that he was concentrating on Britain's economic difficulties and that he had a "good relationship"...
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|  | George W Bush is finally doing the right thing
The Daily Telegraph
The crisis in Georgia gave the sport of Bush-bashing a new lease of life. With all the hullaballoo surrounding the US election campaign, the 43rd president of the union has seemed an increasingly peripheral figure. President George W Bush has been hovering by the exit door for almost a year He has popped up on the odd occasion to tell the US public to hold tight during the downturn, that there is no quick fix for record petrol prices, or to...
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